Inflation can also be caused by a lack of consumer confidence in the purchasing power of their currency. For example, Argentina and Venezuela, where people will come by at like noon during the workday to get the money from their working person to buy groceries with before it loses its value. You get people in a store whose only job is to walk by items and change prices as inflation ravages the money supply.
True, what ended up happening is that I was interested enough to click on it and then got hit with a paywall, but was not interested enough to actually go to archive to find it.
Generally, the peer-to-peer rate is about 10% higher than the KYC rate. So if you buy Monero with KYC in your country and then send it to whoever and they sell it peer-to-peer, they will generally get about 10% above the market price. Cash by mail or cash in person are going to be the cheapest ways simply because there aren't online platforms involved that can reverse the transaction.
I had to pay in order to get on my instance. It's definitely not foolproof, but you add even just a small payment requirement to a registration and it would seem like quite a bit would fall off.
Exactly, it's how much damage they'll do in the process. The Fed creates recessions and then booms with their monetary printing. Take the money printer away from them and you solve a lot of the problems. Because you adopt a sound money. Whether it be gold and silver or Monero. They all have limited supplies.
inflation is controlled by money being printed that doesn't need to exist because it's too much and there's not enough goods and so therefore the interest rate makes a big difference.
There's at least a decent chance that Monero may actually be a better store of value than the destination currency would be and the receiver might just choose to keep it in Monero instead of converting it to their local currency. I'm thinking places like Zambia or Zimbabwe might be some examples. Perhaps Argentina and Venezuela as well. I think a peer-to-peer exchange on both ends would be the better option since then you don't have to go through all that KYC crap and be asked tons of questions and treated like a criminal for just wanting to send money to your family members. So you would purchase Monero peer-to-peer in your country send it to them and if they need to exchange it when they get it they can choose when to do so and how much to convert.
Monero is the way to handle this. The fees are stupid low and it settles within 20 minutes anywhere on planet earth. Oh, and at least as of now, it is totally untraceable, and only the sender and receiver ever know the payment even occurred.
That's absolutely fantastic. As long as it's between two consenting adults with no force applied by anybody either externally or internally, then it's fine.
Really depends on the carrier. For example, here in the United States, T-Mobile and Verizon seem to pretty much take anything that will work on their network, and most things will. But AT&T runs a whitelist system, and so I highly do not recommend them at all. As for VoLTE I Have found the only definitive way to make sure is to actually purchase the thing and see and return it if it doesn't. Either that or stick with the big brands.
Oh dear God, I specifically mandated that I would absolutely not live in an HOA for this exact reason. And boy am I glad I did it. I'm an American damnit. If I want to have two broken down cars on blocks in my yard, then damnit I can. LOL. No, I wouldn't do that. But it's better than an HOA.
I will say I don't really know about the emotional part so I will go into the financial and say that your country's currency will depreciate as time moves on. Therefore, you can either get a fixed rate mortgage now and convert it to a lower fixed rate mortgage later or get a variable rate mortgage now and convert it to a fixed rate later when rates decrease again. By doing this you lock in your price and the only thing that will change it is either in increase in taxes or insurance and even that won't increase it that much. So you have a very good idea of what your bill will be and you are shorting your country's fiat currency by buying something of value now and paying for it with depreciating currency over time.
Edit: As one buyer to another, I will say, watch out for electricity prices, though, because environmentally changing a 900-square-foot apartment or a 900-square-foot house are two totally different animals. I am not sure whether it's because all the other units in the building are doing roughly the same thing so the temperature change you have to make is less or if my landlords were subsidizing electricity but it was way cheaper to run electricity in an apartment than in a house. Like my electricity went up from an average of $30 at my apartments to an average of $120 at my house. As I said, my guess is that since everybody else in your building of apartments is wanting to keep their apartments cool or warm as well, this changes how much you personally spend to warm or cool your part of the building.
Edit 2: Another thought is that perhaps it's the attic in my house that caused a lot of that increase because yes my house is technically like a thousand square feet but that is the floor that you can live on not including the attic which would add more to that total if it were included
And yet inflation is not calming down and has actually been going up again over the past few months. I wonder if the Federal Reserve will just give up on getting inflation back down to 2% and say okay our new target is 3%.
I turned off my Google account entirely by deleting it in January of 2022. And I use add and tracker blocking DNS functionality on all devices on my network and primarily use open source software. So good luck. They may very well still know stuff about me, but the stuff they are going to know is going to be limited and or very old.
I think I heard it went to zero in 2020, and from what I understand, it has not gone back up, so I think it's still a zero reserve requirement, which is crazy. Also, just to let you know, your account shows up as a bot. If you are not a bot, there's a thing in your profile where you can turn that off.
I have no idea. I haven't looked at their GitHub or anything. I just know that it wasn't working in the version that I got from F-Droid. If I remember correctly, the version I got was released in February.